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Connected Health Initiative – Our Health IT Friend on Capitol Hill

Healthcare IT Today

The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) is a non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of all health IT vendors. They are a trusted resource and voice for our industry so that policymakers at federal, state, and local levels can be better informed about emerging digital health technology.

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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Health Populi

Health plans are designed to provide a range of medical services, preventive care, and financial protection against the costs of healthcare. Neither of these explanations satisfies my current view of where I see the industry at this moment, and especially as I work through my forecast to 2030.

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“Complexity is Profitable” in U.S. Healthcare – How to Save a Quarter-Trillion Dollars

Health Populi

trillion of health care spending in 2019; medical spending received 75% of the U.S. health care dollar. At the industry level, Sahni’s team calculated a potential $105 bn of savings each year by streamlining the financial transactions ecosystem and operational functions like clinical credentialing.

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QHINs Will Help Shine a Light on Data Quality

Healthcare IT Today

There has been a lot of activity and news coverage of Qualified Health Information Networks, or QHINs, recently. As the industry gets ready to descend on Nashville for ViVE2023, we thought it would be helpful to get a primer on QHINs and discuss their potential impact. Why should the healthcare industry take note of QHINs?

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AI: Patients Included

Health Populi

health care overall impacts trust in the AI-health layer This AI/trust lens overlaps Americans falling faith in the American health care system in a compounding way. health care ecosystem. CHAI stands for the Coalition for Health AI, and by March 2024 had over 1,300 representatives from across the industry.

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Show Me The Evidence and The ROI: Digital Health Investing in 2023 via GSR Ventures

Health Populi

On the upside, digital health investors see greatest opportunity for start-ups to focus on value-based care models and consumerization of healthcare businesses (each with 29% of investors keen), followed by interoperability and connectivity and reimbursement for digital health solutions (with over 17% enthusiastic for each).

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Digital Health Gaps in the Pandemic Through the Eyes of Younger Physicians

Health Populi

Telehealth in the pandemic was, in Philips’ words, “crucial but underused” Interoperability is still an obstacle, and, Digital technology will be pivotal in the next few years. We owe it to them; to listen to their voices as we consider the future of the healthcare industry.”